Forget the 4-Hour Work Week. Create a 4-Hour Work Day (Done in a Flow State).
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Aim for the 4-Hour Workday Instead of 4-Hour Workweek
The goal is not to work 4 hours less but to:
Become Mindful- Notice how you are currently spending your time at work, especially the time wasted doing useless tasks
Deep Work over Shallow Work- Shallow work is busy and unfocused. Deep work, made popular by Cal Newport in a book of the same title, is about working with our attention focused on one thing.
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4-Hour Workday is Deep Work and Flow State Combined
Deep Work in a Flow State- A flow state is where we are so wrapped up in the single task at hand and time passes without us noticing because we are accomplishing meaningful work.
A 4-hour workday is possible because we are doing deep work while in a flow state
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One hour in the flow state is probably equal to 100 or even 1000 hours of normal state both in terms of output & in terms of joy.
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Purpose & Benefits of a 4-Hour Work day
Purpose: To do our work more efficiently, in an effort to manage both time and energy
Benefits:
- Output increases as a result of efficiently using our time
- An improved state of mind (flow state) will naturally improve the value of the work that you put out
- Improved value of work put out can increase the money you can make from your work
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Practicality of a 4-Hour Work Day
The authors shares a couple points to consider on this aspect of the topic
- Not everyone's work is well suited to a 4-hour work day
- The focus behind the idea, however, is to be more mindful of how we work and see if we can implement a 4-hour focused block of time in our current schedule in an effort to be more efficient.
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Summing Up. A 4-Hour Work Day:
- helps us create more meaningful work
- increases the value of that work
- helps us reclaim valuable time while using our energy efficiently
- possibly helps with reaching a level of success or financial freedom
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